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The fundamental dynamic of the first year of Trump’s second term was that the success he had accruing near dictatorial power came at this cost of his political popularity, which has fallen so low that he’s now openly musing about trying to cancel the midterm elections.
Not only is Trump’s approval rating 16 points underwater — worse than any other modern president a year into their term — but because he’s losing on every key issue it’s hard to see those numbers improving anytime soon.
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To go deep on Trump’s political missteps and how he’s set Republicans up for failure this year, we connected with old friend of the newsletter Simon Rosenberg, author of the Hopium Chronicles.
We last talked to Rosenberg in the spring of 2024, when he made an impassioned case that the Trump campaign was in more trouble than people realized at the time.
